Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Agent Joseph Pistone, better known by his alias Donnie Brasco, told a commission in Canada that the mafia is a menacing “plague on our society,” the Montreal Gazette reports. During the highly anticipating testimony, Pistone said the structures and traditions of the mafia are identical around the globe. “That’s why…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The wife of a former FBI agent missing for five years traveled to New York to urge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to help find her husband, NBC 4 New York reports. Bob Levinson, 64, traveled to the Iranian island of Kish on March 8, 2007, and never returned. His wife, Christine Levinson,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A woman trying to reach the U.S. by swimming across a canal bordering Arizona and Mexico was rescued by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the Yuma Sun reports. The woman and two others who said they were Mexican nationals were trying to swim across the Sanchez Canal late Friday. But as the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department issued a statement Monday afternoon in response to a story in ticklethewire. com in which a defense attorney accused a California FBI agent of using thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money to pay for prostitutes in the Philippines for himself and three defendants in a arms trafficking sting….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An undercover California FBI agent is being accused of spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on prostitutes in the Philippines “for himself and for defendants” in a gun-trafficking sting and that “many of the prostitutes were likely minors.” The ticklethewire.com has reviewed the allegations in court papers that were filed on September…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What the heck is going on in Reno, Nevada? The Reno-Gazette Journal reports that the U.S. Attorney there have refused for nearly the past year to take any case submitted by ATF. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the dispute has forced the transfer of four full-time agents from the Reno, according…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The massacre was brutal. More than 200 men, women and children in Guatemala were killed, often after being struck by a sledgehammer in the 1982 attack on the village of Dos Erres. A former Guatemalan army commander accused of participating in the massacre was returned to the U.S. on Friday following his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new team of five FBI agents soon will begin investigating public corruption in Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch reports. While Ohio isn’t considered a hotbed of corruption, it will join many other states with a special squad dedicated to investigating public officials. “Most capital cities have a squad,” said Edward J. Hanko,…
